Quick Look: Capcom Arcade Cabinet: 1984 Pack

Big Jeffrey is watching you.

Nice :-)

Aw, no Ryan, nice to have Brad in on the action though.

BONUS GAMES????

EDIT: PLUS BONUS BRAD?????????????

EDIT 2: ????????????????????

I don't care what they say, NOTHING STOPS THE CAPCOM ARCADE CABINET QUICK LOOK!

*pending continued releases by Capcom for the Capcom Arcade Cabinet

Shit don't work

EDIT: Youtube works.

NOTHING STOPS THE GAME ROOM QUICK LOOK!

Deck.

No Venetian Blinds? I'm out!

It's always interesting to hear Jeff talk about the glory days of arcade games.

#team1984

According to my former teacher, Japanese were in fact raised to be shameful of their actions in the war in the post-war period. It's just that this has lessened as time has passed, to the point where it's just something that's never talked about nowadays. Although China and Korea do their best to constantly remind Japan of their shameful actions. The people who made 1942 were probably raised during this period of post-war contrition.

This isn't really a direct answer to Brad's question about post-war Japan, but as part of SCAP Japanese movies were censored for a while such that America & post-war relations had to be portrayed in a positive light. Ozu's Late Spring actually does a good job of subverting this pro-American mandate by inserting sarcastic (or incongruous) ads for Coke across Japanese landscapes, and by having a character who's gotten ill from being overworked in an American camp (though you need to infer that's how she got sick, it isn't overt). I don't know a ton about that period of Japanese film, but it's easy to extrapolate the effects of that strict, pro-American cultural influence and how that might inform how the Japanese have come to view the war.

Thanks Jeff!

I wasn't around when these games were hot shit but it seems to me that there weren't that many different genres of games then, it's either platformers or shoot 'em ups

Present time is a good time for gaming

@jeff The Quicklook seems to be incomplete. EDIT: Seems to work now.

The Raid come up again!!

"Let's just die".

Hah. You try to select YouTube and it says Members Only.

This still boggles my fucking mind. I can just go to YouTube, guys.

In fact:

God bless you, Capcom Arcade Cabinet. It's been fun.

"I want to say Capcom started in 1984"...

Didn't it say "30th Anniversary Capcom" right at the top of the video?

Any place i could actually find the menu music?

We will miss you Capcom Arcade Cabinet.

1942 is a genuine classic. Sad this is the end of the Arcade Cabinet... for now.

Come on man, you can't expect them to be good with MATH. Cause what use would that be? :D

We're talking arcade games here, these were games made to be played in an arcade, they were designed with high scores and making people put in more credits in mind, the closest comparison to today would probably be facebook games, which also have some similar mechanics in place, though few seem to have figured out it could be a pretty good thing if the games are also kinda fun to play. There were plenty of genres back then too - by 1983-84, the RPG genre was well established on home computers, with classics such as Wizardry, The Bard's Tale and Ultima. There were text adventure games/visual novels, and the first proto-typical first person shooters had started to pop up, such as Maze War and numerous clones of that, though they were mostly played on university mainframes or networked office machines, and the same was true of the precursors to MMORPG's - MUDs, or Multi-User Dungeons. There were also plenty of racing games on both home computers and in the arcades.

While there are technically more genres around today, popular games are just like back then limited to around 2 or 3 very formulaic genres - today it's modern military first person shooters, third person cover based shooters and MOBAs, back then it was platformers, vertical or horizontally scrolling shoot 'em ups and Pac-Man like maze games.

I had no idea Drew had a background in game development.

The more you know!

@fisk0: You're right, I'm the furthest from an expert on this subject. Still though, it's a great time for games!

If you guys had been following this stuff for long enough, you'd know that Capcom is not to be trusted with its anniversaries and the math involved.

He drew achievements! Hah and I slipped in a name-pun. Highfive me!

Yeah, that's dumb. The justification is is that they can't slap custom ads when embedding from youtube.

I have friends deep into arcades who are able to fix the CPS boards suicide batteries.

Wow, I had never thought about the 1942 thing until Brad mentioned it. Super weird.

I know! Now I feel kinda bad for this.

Sorry Drew! It was fun, but mega short. If I recall I had it a seven, but they knocked it down a bit, because yeah, super short.

Still, I enjoyed it. That was the same summer of Bionic Commando Rearmed, Castle Crashers and Geometry Wars 2, so it was a good lead in.

And this brings my week to an end. Well done, guys.

Recent sales numbers indicate that Capcom is currently kinda not very good at the business of making money. >_<

Wow, I just now noticed 1942 in the NES was the first game I've ever played.

Thanks Capcom Arcade Cabinet!

Son Son has the same music as Yie Ar Kung Fu!

If I recall the earliest podcast he was on, he said he was responsible for mocking up a lot of the little achievement graphics/images you see in the menus.

Vulgus looks pretty similar to Savage Bees to me.

The one reason why I preferred the C64 version of 1942 was that the devs totally ripped off the music from 633 Squadron for use in the game.

In regards to the Japanese/American things, I think there was a massive change in Japan's culture after the American WWII occupation.

I can't believe we're already done with probably the smoothest, loungiest menu music I've ever heard.

"Striker 1945" thanks guy. I been looking for that game for the longest. With all these 1945 talks and I clearly remembering the 1945 game I played is nothing like it at all. I was starting to believe that I just remember the game wrong.

Man, really enjoyed the discussion about the games and the ROM talk in general. Good stuff gents. I was glued to the entire thing. Not a bad sendoff for the collection.